diff --git a/wp-admin/import/livejournal.php b/wp-admin/import/livejournal.php
index 40c14fce79..44b92a56b5 100644
--- a/wp-admin/import/livejournal.php
+++ b/wp-admin/import/livejournal.php
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ class LJ_Import {
 		unset($importdata);
 		echo '<ol>';
 		foreach ($posts as $post) {
-			flush();
 			preg_match('|<subject>(.*?)</subject>|is', $post, $post_title);
 			$post_title = $wpdb->escape(trim($post_title[1]));
 			if ( empty($post_title) ) {
@@ -118,8 +117,6 @@ class LJ_Import {
 				printf(__('(%s comments)'), $num_comments);
 			}
 			echo '</li>';
-			flush();
-			ob_flush();
 		}
 		echo '</ol>';
 	}
diff --git a/wp-admin/import/mt.php b/wp-admin/import/mt.php
index c5fa5ae258..6766f32e01 100644
--- a/wp-admin/import/mt.php
+++ b/wp-admin/import/mt.php
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ class MT_Import {
 		echo '</form>';
 		echo '</ol></div>';
 
-		flush();
 	}
 
 	function select_authors() {
@@ -384,7 +383,6 @@ class MT_Import {
 
 				echo "</li>";
 			}
-			flush();
 		}
 
 		echo '</ol>';
diff --git a/wp-admin/install.php b/wp-admin/install.php
index 184f17a6cd..9c2ade499d 100644
--- a/wp-admin/install.php
+++ b/wp-admin/install.php
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ if (empty($admin_email)) {
 
 
 <?php
-flush();
 
 $result = wp_install($weblog_title, __('admin'), $admin_email, $public);
 extract($result);